A Purple Yearbook and Free Speech on Campuses

By EDWARD C. PEASE

While summer lingered in most places, a chilling wind swept
campuses nationwide in September, when a federal appeals court in
Cincinnati ruled that Kentucky State University was justified in
censoring its students' yearbook.

Most students and faculty members haven't even noticed it yet,
but at state colleges and universities from Orono, Me., to San
Diego, the decision in Kincaid v. Gibson could end up plunging free
expression into an enduring